A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE SAUCER DISHES

YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)

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A PAIR OF FAMILLE ROSE SAUCER DISHES
YONGZHENG PERIOD (1723-1735)
Each dish is brightly decorated to the interior with a scene depicting two ladies in a terraced garden, beside a building with a scholar playing a qin, with an attendant at his side asleep. The slightly flared rims are decorated with a border of four shaped cartouches each enclosing floral sprays on a pink diaper ground.
14¼ in. (36 cm.) diam. (2)

Provenance

With Spink & Son., London.

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Lot Essay

The scene depicted on this pair of dishes is likely to be from the Yuan dynasty play Xixiang ji, Romance of the Western Chamber. This is very similar to the famous scene where the young scholar Zhang Sheng, having fallen in love with Cui Yingying, expresses his feelings by playing the qin, heard by the lady herself and her maid Hong niang.

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